Pancreatic cancer epidemiology: understanding the role of lifestyle and inherited risk factors

AP Klein - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2021 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer is a leading cause of cancer death worldwide and its global burden has
more than doubled over the past 25 years. The highest incidence regions for pancreatic …

Circulating tumor nucleic acids: biology, release mechanisms, and clinical relevance

P Stejskal, H Goodarzi, J Srovnal, M Hajdúch… - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Background Despite advances in early detection and therapies, cancer is still one of the
most common causes of death worldwide. Since each tumor is unique, there is a need to …

Aptamer-based detection of circulating targets for precision medicine

L Wu, Y Wang, X Xu, Y Liu, B Lin, M Zhang… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The past decade has witnessed ongoing progress in precision medicine to improve human
health. As an emerging diagnostic technique, liquid biopsy can provide real-time …

The molecular biology of pancreatic adenocarcinoma: translational challenges and clinical perspectives

S Wang, Y Zheng, F Yang, L Zhu, XQ Zhu… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer is an increasingly common cause of cancer mortality with a tight
correspondence between disease mortality and incidence. Furthermore, it is usually …

Role of oncogenic KRAS in the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer

L Buscail, B Bournet, P Cordelier - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is predicted to be the second most common
cause of death within the next 10 years. The prognosis for this disease is poor despite …

Early screening and diagnosis strategies of pancreatic cancer: a comprehensive review

J Yang, R Xu, C Wang, J Qiu, B Ren… - Cancer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Pancreatic cancer is a highly malignant digestive system tumor with a poor prognosis. Most
pancreatic cancer patients are diagnosed at an advanced stage or even metastasis due to …

Current and future perspectives of liquid biopsies in genomics-driven oncology

E Heitzer, IS Haque, CES Roberts… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Precision oncology seeks to leverage molecular information about cancer to improve patient
outcomes. Tissue biopsy samples are widely used to characterize tumours but are limited by …

Circulating cell-free DNA for cancer early detection

Q Gao, Q Zeng, Z Wang, C Li, Y Xu, P Cui, X Zhu, H Lu… - The Innovation, 2022 - cell.com
Effective screening modalities are currently available for only a small subset of cancers, and
they generally have suboptimal performance with complicated procedures. Therefore, there …

Graphene sensor arrays for rapid and accurate detection of pancreatic cancer exosomes in patients' blood plasma samples

T Yin, L Xu, B Gil, N Merali, MS Sokolikova… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biosensors based on graphene field effect transistors (GFETs) have the potential to enable
the development of point-of-care diagnostic tools for early stage disease detection …

DNA methylation cancer biomarkers: translation to the clinic

WJ Locke, D Guanzon, C Ma, YJ Liew… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Carcinogenesis is accompanied by widespread DNA methylation changes within the cell.
These changes are characterized by a globally hypomethylated genome with focal …